{"id":237786,"date":"2026-04-06T22:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237786\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T22:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:25:06","slug":"police-identify-victim-in-nw-austin-homicide-ask-neighbors-for-doorbell-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237786\/","title":{"rendered":"Police identify victim in NW Austin homicide, ask neighbors for doorbell video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police have identified a man who was <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/apd-investigating-nw-austin-homicide-second-in-less-than-12-hours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fatally shot in northwest Austin<\/a> last week and are asking neighbors to <a href=\"https:\/\/austintxpd.evidence.com\/axon\/community-request\/public\/260930050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">submit any video footage<\/a> that may help identify who is responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Williams, 35, was shot in the 10900 block of Brazoria Lane shortly after midnight on April 3. A 911 caller reported her boyfriend had been shot, and officers arrived on scene and located Williams with apparent gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at 1:09 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/apd-investigating-nw-austin-homicide-second-in-less-than-12-hours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE | APD investigating after man found dead in NW Austin, second homicide in less than 12 hours<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made. <\/p>\n<p>Detectives are asking residents in the area to review any home security or doorbell camera footage captured between 11:30 p.m. April 2 and 1 a.m. April 3. Police said the direction of travel of the suspect or suspects is unknown and that it is possible the person responsible drove through the surrounding neighborhood while leaving the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Video, photos or other potential evidence can be submitted to the Austin Police Department <a href=\"https:\/\/austintxpd.evidence.com\/axon\/community-request\/public\/260930050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through Capital Area Crime Stoppers at <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austincrimestoppers.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">austincrimestoppers.org<\/a> or by calling 512-472-8477.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>A reward of up to $1,000 is available for information leading to an arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police have identified a man who was fatally shot in northwest Austin last week and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-237786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}